23 May 1921

Document No. 2610

TELEGRAM TO ALL GUBERNATORIAL COMMITTEES AND GUBERNATORIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES
COPY TO GUBERNATORIAL SOCIAL SECURITY BOARDS
23 May 1921

The introduction of the food tax has entailed the abolition of redistributive assessments and redistribution, which, although in general alleviates the situation of the peasantry, at the same time deprives Red Army families and the poor peasantry of the assistance they had been receiving from stronger households through internal redistribution.

Therefore, the work of the organs of social security acquires exceptional political significance, and it is necessary to place it on an equal footing with the work of shock organs. For this purpose, the following is proposed:

1) To review the composition of the collegium of gubernatorial and district social security boards, appointing the most energetic and capable workers, including persons who know the countryside.

2) To return experienced workers engaged in other work for service in the social security boards, and in particular workers from hospital funds.

3) To inform the People's Commissariat of Social Security immediately by telegraph of all changes in the composition of the social security board collegium.

4) To ensure that the organs of social security are supplied with everything necessary for their proper and regular functioning.

At the same time, taking into account the weakness of the Republic's resources, it is necessary to organize mutual aid among the peasantry on the basis of the decree of the Council of People's Commissars of 14 May, for which purpose it is proposed to conduct broad agitation for the creation of mutual aid committees, explaining their significance and utility for the peasantry and pointing out that with the creation of mutual aid committees the state will by no means reduce the assistance it is now rendering to the poorest peasantry and Red Army families, but on the contrary will exert all its efforts to deepen and expand it.

For this purpose it is proposed to allocate a cadre of instructors and agitators, to organize the publication of popular leaflets and posters explaining the idea of mutual aid, and in every way to facilitate the creation of committees and the development of their activities.

Emphasizing the exceptional political significance and importance of carrying out the indicated measures, the Gubernatorial Executive Committee and the Gubernatorial Committee are proposed to discuss measures for their most successful implementation and to instruct the districts immediately.

LENINIST COLLECTION

Responsibility for the execution of this order is placed upon the chairman of the executive committee.

The head of the gubernatorial social security board is charged, under his personal responsibility, to report by telegraph to the People's Commissariat of Social Security every two weeks on the measures taken and their concrete results, having obtained by all means similar information from the heads of district social security boards.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin

Secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP
Molotov

Deputy People's Commissar of Social Security
N. Milyutin

*Printed from a typewritten copy.*

# NOTE TO V. M. MOLOTOV

26 May 1921

In my opinion, it is essential to appoint a *personally* responsible editor, responsible for an *intelligent* presentation of the speeches, abridged, with the elimination of everything not quite suitable for publication*.

Lenin

Document No. 10697

# FROM A NOTE TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF POSTS AND TELEGRAPHS

31 May 1921

...I propose that on Wednesday, 1 June, a report be made in the Council of Labor and Defense on the calendar program for the construction of radiotelephone facilities of the first phase (that is, the installation of radiotelephone receivers in gubernatorial and district centers within a radius of 2,000 versts around Moscow), and on the same day to place on the agenda all questions connected with radiotelephone construction, namely: the transfer of the workshop of the former Anosov [enterprise] under the jurisdiction of...

*The reference is to the publication of materials from the Tenth All-Russian Party Conference. The note was written by V. I. Lenin on an appeal from representatives of the press to the presidium of the conference requesting permission to use stenographic records.